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Operating Systems

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📚 Syllabus - OS (Diploma Computer Engineering 3rd)

1. Introduction (4 Hours)

Operating  System  (OS):  Objectives,  Functions,  Evolution,  Classification,  Booting 

(Cold and Warm) 

2. e Op rating System Structures (6 Hours)

OS  Services,  User  Interface  (Command‐Line  Interface,  Graphical User  Interface), 

System Calls, Kernel, OS structure (monolithic, layered and microkernel) 

3. Process Management (10 Hours)

Process,  Process  States,  Process  Control  Block  (PCB),  Operations  on  Processes, 

Inter‐process Communication, Process Synchronization – Critical Section Problem, 

Solutions  to  Critical  Section  Problem  –  Peterson’s  Solution,  Hardware  Solution, 

Semaphores  and  Monitors,  Deadlocks  –  Essential  Conditions,  Prevention  and 

Avoidance  –  Bankers  Algorithm,  Threads  –  User‐level  and  Kernel‐level  threads, 

Multithreading Models –  Many to One, One to One, Many to Many 

4. CPU Scheduling (10 Hours)

Scheduling  –  Objectives,  performance  criteria,  CPU  and  I/O  burst  cycle, 

Preemptive  Vs.  Non  preemptive  scheduling,  CPU  Scheduler(Long‐term, 

Short‐term),  Scheduling  Algorithms:  First‐come‐first‐served  (FCFS),  Shortest  job 

first    (SJF),  Shortest  Remaining  Time  First  (SRTF),  Round  Robin  (RR),  Priority 

Scheduling, Multilevel Queue Scheduling, Multilevel Feedback Queue 

5. Memory Management (10 Hours)

      Contiguous  Memory  Allocation  –  MFT,  MVT,  Buddy  System,  Fragmentation 

(Internal,  External),  Compaction,  Memory  Hole  Allocation  Strategies  (First‐fit, 

Best‐fit,  Worst‐fit),  Non‐contiguous  Memory  Allocation  –  Paging  –  Logical  and 

Physical  Address  Spaces,  Page,  Frame,  Shared  Pages,  Page  Table  Structure  – 

Hierarchical,  Hashed  and  Inverted,  Segmentation  –  User  View  of  main  memory, 

Segments 

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6. Virtual Memory (4 Hours)

      Swapping, Demand Paging,  Page Replacement Policies  –  FIFO, Optimal,  LRU,  LFU 

and MFU, Thrashing 

7. Storage Management (8 Hours)

File  –  Concept,  Attributes,  Operations,  Types,  Structure,  Access  Methods  – 

Sequential  and  Direct,  Allocation  Methods  –  Contiguous,  Linked,  Indexed, 

Directory  Structure  –  Single  level,  Two  level  and  Tree  Structure,  Free  Space 

management techniques –Bitmap and Linked List, Disk Scheduling 

8. I/O Subsystem (6 Hours)

I/O  instructions  based  and  Memory‐mapped  I/O  systems,  Polling,  Interrupts, 

DMA, Buffering, Caching, Spooling 

9. Case Studies (6 Hours)

Features  comparison  of  Windows  Family,  UNIX,  Linux  and  Android  Operating 

Systems 

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